WHITEHEAD "A"

Operated by NEWFIELD EXPLORATION COMPANY (P-5 606617) in the LANGTRY (CANYON) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 196261District 01Field 519892002 tax incentive programmesGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$2.2 M
May 2003 – Dec 2013
Value, last 12 filed months
$31 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
128
no gaps in the span
Streams
1
gas

The Railroad Commission's own record for the field this lease produces from, including the spacing rule that governs how close together its wells may be drilled.

These are facts about the field, not about this lease. The field holds 27 leases and 27 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
2000-01-04
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2001-03-06.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AOF-1 AND AOF-2 EFFECTIVE 07/01/2001.

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
High Cost Gas112003-11-20153247
NGPA1none

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

What this lease produced, and what it was worth

Oil and condensate are valued on the volume the state records as disposed of; gas and casinghead gas on the volume produced. They are different columns of different files, and the difference is not cosmetic.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
GasProduction347,061 Mcf$2,163,379
Total$2,163,379

Wells on this lease (1)

Every wellbore the Railroad Commission records against this lease key, with the depth, the last completion and the plug date exactly as filed. A well with no plug date is not stated to be producing — the state files no such flag.

These wells centre on 30.0166, -100.7107. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.01664, -100.71074 · centre of the wells drawn, derived

What these wells add up to

Every figure below is counted over all of this lease's wells, not over the rows listed above. The Railroad Commission files two facts about a well's state — a plug date and a proration-schedule flag — and a well can carry both, so they are published as separate counts and never merged into a status.

On the schedule
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
11,903 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
10.6 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
1100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1100.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
00.0%

A plug date is the date the Commission recorded the wellbore as sealed with cement and abandoned. It is the only end-of-life fact Texas files. There is no "active" flag on a well, so this page does not print one — a well with no plug date is not stated to be producing.

How deep they were drilled

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 11,903 ft.

Completions filed
May 2003
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Dec 2013
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 10.6 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 10.6 years and 10.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-46530689790411,903 ftMay 2003Dec 2013Yes

The API number is the state's, prefixed 42 for Texas. A well is matched to this lease by the lease key the Commission files on the wellbore record, so a well that has moved between leases appears under each one it was filed against.

Every month this lease reported (128)

Volume × price = value, one row per cycle. The price columns are the same series published on the prices page — nothing here is modelled.

128 months

Dec 2013091.824.35$0
Nov 2013088.853.74$0
Oct 201354297.423.78$2,048
Sep 2013785104.113.72$2,918
Aug 2013707104.253.52$2,490
Jul 2013804102.523.72$2,989
Jun 201384694.403.93$3,328
May 20131,00094.834.15$4,149
Apr 201393693.964.28$4,009
Mar 201389793.623.91$3,510
Feb 201376391.233.42$2,609
Jan 201384491.603.42$2,886
Dec 201285386.773.42$2,917
Nov 201287586.953.62$3,172
Oct 201286389.383.40$2,934
Sep 201293494.672.92$2,726
Aug 201296592.662.91$2,806
Jul 201297485.133.02$2,942
Jun 201289679.822.52$2,257
May 201287091.612.49$2,165
Apr 2012909101.652.00$1,815
Mar 20121,026105.052.22$2,280
Feb 2012895101.102.57$2,300
Jan 20121,01198.092.73$2,764
Dec 201196896.873.24$3,136
Nov 201196595.723.31$3,195
Oct 20111,06284.983.65$3,875
Sep 20111,01383.623.99$4,038
Aug 20111,07683.404.15$4,465
Jul 20111,13794.144.52$5,136
Jun 201193492.904.64$4,334
May 20111,05898.134.40$4,660
Apr 20111,069105.964.33$4,632
Mar 20111,10296.364.06$4,471
Feb 201183385.644.18$3,482
Jan 20111,15386.504.59$5,291
Dec 20101,09885.734.35$4,774
Nov 20101,07480.843.80$4,076
Oct 20101,13378.103.51$3,976
Sep 201093072.633.98$3,701
Aug 20101,02673.684.42$4,534
Jul 20101,13672.554.74$5,381
Jun 20101,19870.364.91$5,883
May 20101,27171.124.24$5,383
Apr 20101,00181.694.12$4,127
Mar 20101,15978.394.39$5,086
Feb 20101,45773.585.44$7,930
Jan 20101,57574.365.96$9,393
Dec 20091,68871.445.48$9,257
Nov 20091,45474.593.75$5,455
Oct 20091,42872.544.11$5,869
Sep 20091,79665.543.06$5,504
Aug 20091,60267.423.22$5,156
Jul 20091,37861.133.46$4,774
Jun 20091,66566.163.90$6,485
May 20091,80254.743.93$7,074
Apr 20091,59046.773.59$5,704
Mar 20091,49442.144.06$6,064
Feb 20091,36832.814.63$6,338
Jan 20091,11735.865.37$5,999
Dec 200884537.105.98$5,051
Nov 20081,08455.496.86$7,437
Oct 20081,11275.246.92$7,697
Sep 20081,007101.767.88$7,932
Aug 20081,182114.228.48$10,027
Jul 20081,171131.0811.39$13,337
Jun 20081,206131.3313.03$15,717
May 20081,454123.1711.57$16,829
Apr 20081,311110.3110.45$13,706
Mar 20081,655101.909.66$15,994
Feb 20081,42292.538.77$12,472
Jan 20081,61990.388.21$13,285
Dec 20071,85788.337.30$13,560
Nov 20071,90091.677.29$13,854
Oct 20071,94382.856.92$13,449
Sep 20071,94975.846.24$12,170
Aug 20072,31569.066.39$14,788
Jul 20071,90970.906.39$12,195
Jun 20072,57062.007.55$19,400
May 20072,73058.747.85$21,420
Apr 20072,44259.617.81$19,060
Mar 20072,14356.927.30$15,648
Feb 20073,02655.108.22$24,862
Jan 20073,71150.306.73$24,963
Dec 20063,27556.656.92$22,658
Nov 20062,64154.207.62$20,118
Oct 20063,39054.906.01$20,387
Sep 20063,00860.085.04$15,152
Aug 20063,65168.717.34$26,798
Jul 20063,61269.376.34$22,910
Jun 20063,57466.286.38$22,816
May 20062,64766.016.42$17,007
Apr 20063,20664.397.36$23,598
Mar 20063,56756.707.08$25,265
Feb 20062,84957.597.75$22,083
Jan 20063,99960.598.93$35,724
Dec 20053,94754.9413.42$52,951
Nov 20052,90254.6910.59$30,728
Oct 20053,86658.3413.80$53,334
Sep 20053,95961.4512.08$47,821
Aug 20054,47861.519.80$43,870
Jul 20054,22555.697.84$33,139
Jun 20053,63252.337.38$26,808
May 20054,21245.226.65$28,015
Apr 20054,13049.207.36$30,399
Mar 20054,66550.377.15$33,378
Feb 20054,13845.226.31$26,119
Jan 20055,53643.166.32$35,000
Dec 20045,32839.866.75$35,970
Nov 20045,33545.286.33$33,773
Oct 20044,83449.706.52$31,494
Sep 20044,64143.245.28$24,523
Aug 20045,46642.375.55$30,340
Jul 20045,66338.286.08$34,455
Jun 20045,69936.106.43$36,662
May 20045,56037.486.49$36,110
Apr 20046,92734.475.86$40,582
Mar 20048,27434.365.53$45,756
Feb 20048,08332.455.51$44,534
Jan 20049,01132.036.30$56,766
Dec 200310,31630.266.30$65,008
Nov 20039,93128.804.60$45,635
Oct 20038,98028.174.76$42,742
Sep 20039,30026.314.75$44,169
Aug 200310,64129.765.13$54,585
Jul 200311,36129.415.17$58,746
Jun 200315,03428.565.98$89,948
May 2003026.595.97$0

How to read this page

The arithmetic is one multiplication per stream per month. Here it is, worked, on a real row from the table above.

Oct 2013 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                  542 Mcf  × $  3.78 =     $2,048

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Month total                                   $2,048

The volumes are the state's, unchanged

Every barrel and every Mcf on this page is a number the Railroad Commission of Texas published in its monthly production query. Nothing is modelled, estimated or filled in.

The dollars are a multiplication, not a valuation

Volume × a published monthly price. It is not what the operator was paid: it takes no account of a contract, a differential, a transportation deduction, or the share any one owner holds.

Oil and gas are priced differently

Oil is a Texas realisation — the crude oil first purchase price. Gas is a benchmark, because no free Texas wellhead gas series exists at any date. The prices page publishes the difference rather than correcting it away.

A lease is not a well

The state reports oil on lease and gas on well, and this page is the lease grain. 01/G/196261 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.